CVE-2020-25657

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25657
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-12 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 Ciphertext. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-385

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application M2crypto Project M2crypto All All All All
Application M2crypto Project M2crypto All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
1889823 – (CVE-2020-25657) CVE-2020-25657 m2crypto: bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 752378 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-M2Crypto (SUSE-SU-2022:2532-1)
  • 752383 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-M2Crypto (SUSE-SU-2022:2527-1)
  • 752396 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-M2Crypto (SUSE-SU-2022:2562-1)
  • 752448 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-M2Crypto (SUSE-SU-2022:2691-1)
  • 900223 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for m2crypto 0.35.2
  • 900984 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (6675)
  • 902449 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10079)
  • 902454 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10076)
  • 902461 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10125)
  • 902468 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10108)
  • 902513 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10079)
  • 902520 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10076)
  • 903842 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for m2crypto (10076-1)
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